Speak Out 10/22/14

Manipulation

of baseball

Was the St. Louis Cardinal's lose today against their adversary disheartening? Well, yes it was. Was it foreseen? Well, at least by me, yes! After having watched several and I mean several seasons of St. Louis working their way up to the finals and then throwing their chances of going into the big game. It's one of the reasons why me and my wife and several of our friends have simply torn up our season tickets and given up on them. Remember, people, they are professional sports people and I hate to say this but I truthfully believe the game is as manipulated today as it was back in days when Shoeless Joe was accused of throwing the game.

It's all about money, people. So frankly if you are a St. Louis Cards season ticket holder you may want to think along the lines of me and my wife and just abandoned all hope because they can't cut the mustard anymore and I don't mean the kind they put on those very expensive hot dogs they feed the people at those games.

Spending

out of town

Every time you pick up the Poplar Bluff paper this Kaplan is using our money to hire somebody from out of town. He must think the people in Poplar Bluff are stupid to put up with him spending all of our money the way he wants to spend it.

Ebola getting

out of hand

Yeah, something's gotta be done about this Ebola, it's gettin' out of hand. First of all them countries over in Africa should have been quarantined from people coming to the United States and those Doctors Without Borders and all that they ought to be quarantined from at least two weeks or whatever they say the incubation period is before they could come back into the United States after being over there.

Anybody wantin' to come to this country from there should be quarantined for a couple of weeks. But we need to make some hospitals like we did back in the tuberculosis days that's specially trained to take care of people like this and get 'em back to health. I'm not talking about sending 'em away to die or nothin' like this. I'm talkin' about sending to a place where they are very careful, they know what they're doin' and have limited contact with 'em. Out in our new regional hospital I'll bet you they'd be run rampant in that hospital. They wouldn't know what to do. We need special wards set up just for Ebola patients and everythin' and until these hospitals spend the money, they're gonna keep doin' that and don't let nobody from any of those affected countries come in.

We gotta do somethin' about it or we're gonna lose a lot of people here in this country. That's just my thoughts. I could be wrong, but we gotta do somethin'. I'm thinkin' of my grandchildren and all the young kids around this place. They'd probably be the first to get it and everythin' so wake up, America, stop them from coming to this country. Set up some clinics like you did in the old days or sanitarium places or tuberculosis places and send the people there to get well before they can come back into society. Now that may sound wrong and some freedoms but there's 300 million people in this country.

Stop travel

from Africa

The Ebola virus is obviously the most deadly disease the United States has seen in some time. A little common sense could help and contain this disease before it takes more lives. Stop international travel from countries most infected is one of things that could help. Also, contain anyone that has worked around the Eubola virus patients for a time period that would ensure that they could not spread the disease to the family and friends and avoid the domino affect.

Our government usually doesn't use extreme tactics until it's too late. People right now need to speak out to make that these steps are taken before it is a wide-spread outbreak.